Bug#337025: Acknowledgement (libgtksourceview-dev does not ship .a, static linking of libgtksourceview is not possible)

[Loic Minier]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Looking a bit more at the debian source package I discovered that it
> comes from upstream's configure.in which includes (line 20):
>   AM_DISABLE_STATIC
> Removing that line enable compilation of the .a.

 No, I prefer the less intrusive usage of a configure flag.

> Debian policy is not clear on the subject, but seems to assume that
> almost every shared libraries includes also a .a, while the contrary is
> not true.

 Indeed.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>
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